Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-12-15 | Page 9 | How Science Has Proved That Animals Think

How Science Has Proved J JD St f That Animals Think I 0 animals IS use their brains s like k human n be- be beings b be beings DO D ings Some scientists hold that to o some ii careful exI experiments ex ex- extent they do and have havo made L per I ments to prove it It and are To show that certain animals reason capable of acting upon that reasoning Prof Thorndike of Columbia whose methods differ radically radically radi radio like Darwin Darwin Dar Dar- cally from those of oC the older observers win or 0 Audubon and John Burroughs of or our day ay simple construction with a door devised a box o 0 of and latch which could be opened by one or two complex A hungry animal ani ant movements by b no means mal anal usually a cat or dog is locked inside this bor while food is placed within sight Just on the out oj side Then the animal Is timed by the watch as asto to the the number of or minutes required to effect its clawing about It I own o n release By D scratching or sooner or or later tater manages to strike a lever which connects with the latch and opens the door Once having discovered this fact the animal displays intelligence to repeat this performance a sufficient e each ch time it confined Is confined in the box and each time constantly diminishing number releases Itself in a of minutes It If for instance it requires three minutes min the dog or cat will do it In fn utes the tho first time minute the fourth time Raccoons aro are about one apt at this game i be specially said to favorite device deIce of those experimenting 1 a Another intelligence is what is known as the animal on labyrinth This contrivance begins i maze or entrances to a series of ot passageways pas pas- with two or more innumerable windings and trun trun- sage waYs with j a r finally finall in ID the ono one Instance to a so so- I Ings lags called called leading loading blind title alley with no exit and In the other i tempting food The purpose of instance to some Borne maze is to see how quickly tile the hungry ani ant animal 7 tho the find fin repeated attempts to after will learn matits mal mat which lead various passages through h tho the its wa way to tho the food rood ultimately crayfish are used 1 In n these Rats mice and even u 1 ani experiments with Itil more or less success SU la The L JH nUl inside usually learn the maze in a antal I mals s once would would- as well as most of us perhaps time Gme time perhaps short to be lacking in Judgment ju for fOl as seen scent but they regardless of tho number of times lines as not often successfully threaded the passageway they have o mistake of ot going still quite often otten make moko tho the they entrance from the beginning Ex Ex- Experiments Experiments wrong into tho the of or this kind if they show that an animal also show r that it is likewise has an any intelligence deal of ot stupidity owed with a great endowed en illustration of this a writer in Popular 1 As an Monthly points to a recent experiment of ot Scle Science Hamilton in which 10 human beings and V. V Dr G. G were used Of at the latter there ther animals 7 27 lower five flue cats 5 monkeys 16 dogs and 1 horse were consisted in allowing each ono one oneT experiment The T turn to enter a room from which escape in n of those thesa possible through ough any anyone one of ot four swinging was all of like appearance In brief three of or tho the doors were always alwa's locked but each time the trial doors it was never the same door that remained re rev remained made roa e was unlocked l In order to succeed In getting the subject of or the experiment had to do all out on the tho ono one door of the four tour which push to was unlocked Altogether there were a hundred was trials at al the ti L rate of 10 a day dare To discover tho the relative Intelligence displayed by b the various subJects sub sub- important part of or the experiment All Allot was an au of ot them theta accord according Ins to Dr Hamilton Hammon possessed reasoning faculty The detailed result was interesting All of ot the human beings bein s including two detectives made a higher average than any an one group of or the lower Jower animals but a year old boy of or unusual intelli- intelli fell below the average of four of ot the monkeys monkeys mon mono genco of or the dogs A old months puppy and ond seven keys l es e's of ot mixed breed just about doubled this boys boy's record as well as that of all the dogs More than anything else elso this experiment when considered in all its details showed that from the Standpoint c of quality not quality not quantity the quantity tho minds of the lower animals are not inferior in some somo respects respect to those of human beings